Duck Sauce Slaying Suspect Denied Forest Hills Murder In Suicide Note

FOREST HILLS, NY — The man accused of murdering a Forest Hills delivery worker over duck sauce proclaimed his innocence in a suicide note he left behind, according to the New York Post.

Glenn Hirsch — arrested in May for the April death of Zhiwen Yan — died by suicide on Aug. 5 and left behind a note read in court Monday, according to the Post and previous Patch reporting.

“I… hereby declare my innocence in connection with the death of Mr. Zhiwen Yan," the note reportedly reads. "I did not shoot Mr. Yan and I am not responsible for his death."

Hirch, 50, then went on a diatribe calling the Queens District Attorney's office “ethically challenged'' and the NYPD’s police work “sloppy.”

The note was presented in court by Dorothy Hirsch, his estranged wife, who now faces criminal weapons charges linked to a stash of guns police found in her home, according to the Post and a previous Patch report.

In the note, Hirsch clears his wife and says the hidden cache of eight guns and ammunition stashed in a cluttered closet in their Briarwood home were his, according to the Post.

"I want to take full responsibility for the eight guns recovered from a closet in her apartment," Hirsch reportedly wrote. "I acquired these firearms many years ago."

Yan, a father of three, was fatally shot while delivering food for the Great Wall Chinese restaurant in Forest Hills on May 1, police said at the time.

Police previously said they wanted to question a disgruntled customer in connection to the shooting, law enforcement sources told multiple outlets.

District Attorney Melinda Katz called the suicide “tragic” and expressed condolences to the family of Yan, but said she would have preferred Hirsch to have been tried for the crime.

Hirsch ended the note with a quote from Russian novelist who also spent time in prison, the Daily Mail reports.

"It was the Crime and Punishment Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky who once wrote, 'the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons," Hirsch quotes. "Thus, it is now all of you who are being judged, not I."

If you or someone you know is considering suicide, there are resources to help. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24 hours a day at 988. Its website offers services including a live chat.